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Which Trilogy songs could have worked in the AI musical, and why?

Just had a thought about whether any of the songs from the trilogy would have fit in with the story of the American Idiot musical. For example, I think Drama Queen could have quite easily been from the perspective of Whatsername's father. Just like a lot of songs of DOS could fit in with the St Jimmy character.

What do you guys think?

Mods, feel free to close this if you don't think it's threadworthy, just an idea

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I agree that the trilogy as a whole is not the same spirit, but I definitely think some of the songs could fit really nicely into the story. Just like they used some songs from 21CB, and even a couple of B-sides in it too.

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I've been thinking about the trilogy becoming a broadway show. I know it's not really meant for that, but it could work. It's sort of a continuation of Billie Joe's life story - he starts out ready to take over the world and then get's side-tracked by women and booze and other things. Then he wipes out and is redeemed by his own relization that while life can really be bad, there really isn't any other way. but as far as inserting songs into the American Idiot musical, I think Lazy Bones....Stop When the Red Lights Flash.....Fell For You....heck, just about any of them. Amanda is about Whatshername, but I'm not sure where they could put it.

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If they had another male character who was in a more intimate and personal relationship with Whatsername (before she hooked up with the JOS), they could have named her Amy and before BOBD, the character could have sang Amy. "Amy don't you go...".